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[-] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago

"Sir, you are clearly lying!"

"I know, but hear me out!"

[-] elrik@lemmy.world 35 points 1 day ago

You know what this reminds me of? Alex Jones repeatedly lying about the Sandy Hook school shooting and having to pay over a billion dollars after his followers repeatedly harassed and threatened those families.

How is this thoroughly debunked lying by Trump and Vance any different?

[-] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 day ago

He says, you can't believe him. I agree.

[-] BluJay320@lemmy.blahaj.zone 63 points 1 day ago

The fact that we’re at the point where candidates just outwardly say “yeah, I lied. So what?” And people continue to back them is wild.

[-] Ranger@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 1 day ago
[-] NatakuNox@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

"the other side wants to (checks notes) feed children...'

[-] HawlSera@lemm.ee 28 points 1 day ago

Lies typically work better when you don't admit that you're both lying and intend to do it again.

[-] Denjin@lemmings.world 21 points 1 day ago

You say that as if the people being fed these lies even give a shit about whether they're lies or the truth.

[-] latenightnoir@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago

This. Most people listening to the bullshit already wanted to believe in the bullshit.

[-] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago

Conservatism was always like that.

They see the average voter like a child, which is too dumb to understand the world, and as such needs to be lied to about things.Their main goal, since the fall of kings, is to conserve power. It's just so conveniently also coincides with a lot of tradition, which they often cover behind.

I am a former conservative, and one of theirs tried to hold me back with their version of the "birds and the bees" talk, even promising me "private freedom" (doing either the harmless stuff they're against, or the really fucked up ones, as long as no one finds out) and wealth if I manage to reach the "inner echelons" of their operations.

[-] Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

There is a reason authoritarians exist. Some people just go along with it. We use to tell them to wake the fuck up. Instead they decided being woke is somehow offensive.

Figure it out, we will all be better for it.

[-] PedroMaldonado@lemmy.world 23 points 1 day ago

Lying peice of shit. He just goes and says it...

[-] fallingcats@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 day ago

The banality of evil strikes again.

[-] Ranger@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 day ago

I hate politics in this country.

[-] Mora@pawb.social 19 points 1 day ago

What a weird couch fucker...

[-] Ranger@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 day ago

Is there a normal couch fucker?

[-] EmptySlime@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 1 day ago

I believe that would be one who prefers to fuck other people, but on the couch.

[-] Ranger@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 day ago

What if you don't have a furniture preference?

[-] MadBob@feddit.nl 1 points 1 day ago
[-] modifier@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 day ago

As an erstwhile centrist, I was under the impression that this sort of thing was supposed to be firmly in the remit of Marxism.

What gives.

[-] janet_catcus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 1 day ago

what does marxism have to do with this couchnutter?

[-] Machinist@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

couchnutter

I'm so stealing this. This is great.

[-] OwenEverbinde@lemmy.myserv.one 1 points 1 day ago

Could it be the case that the folks who told you Marxists were the postmodern, post-truth folks... were about as convinced of that claim as they are of conservatives' other claims?

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